Feschuk: Maple Leafs in market for veteran netminder | Toronto Star Online
at age 47. No word on whether ex-Leaf Curtis Joseph, right, is similarly inclined. RYAN REMIORZ/CP When the Maple Leafs embark on their annual quest for a better on-ice product, they’ll be attempting to solve an age-old problem with a man of a certain age. Acquiring a proven...
New Jersey Devils reach Stanley Cup final, win Game 6 in overtime | Toronto Star Online
Toronto Maple Leafs» NEWARK, N.J.—You couldn’t blame Anton Stralman if he’s quietly enjoying the last laugh. The one-time can’t-miss Maple Leafs prospect is now one of...
Anton Stralman gets his shot with New York Rangers | Toronto Star Online
upends the Devils' Stephen Gionta in front of goalie Henrik Lundqvist during Game 3. BILL KOSTROUN/REUTERS More about Toronto Maple Leafs» NEWARK, N.J.—You couldn’t blame Anton Stralman if he’s quietly enjoying the last laugh. The one-time can’t-miss Maple Leafs prospect is now one of...
Rick Dudley leaves Toronto Maple Leafs for Montreal Canadiens’ assistant GM role | Toronto Star Online
GM. TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR The Montreal Canadiens reached into the front office of their historic rivals — the Toronto Maple Leafs — on Friday to help them rebuild. Rick Dudley, who spent one year under GM Brian Burke as an assistant, is rejoining his old friend, Marc Bergevin, as...
Cox: Maple Leafs couldn’t have been the L.A. Kings | Toronto Star Online
Brian Burke isn't getting much credit for the Toronto Marlies' success in the AHL playoffs, but installing Dallas Eakins as head coach and bolstering the roster has been the work of the Leaf GM and his staff. DARRYL DYCK/THE...
Wayne Gretzky: L.A. Kings’ success in NHL playoffs ‘spectacular’ and ‘no fluke’ | Toronto Star Online
highlights. When the FS West network recently aired the last two games of the conference finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs, his dominance was no less incredible now than it was 19 years ago. The only shame is that he’s not involved with the game except as a...
Cox: Toronto Marlies one win away from Calder Cup final | Toronto Star Online
series at Ricoh Coliseum. Keith Beaty/Toronto Star No stars, no problem. Without their two top offensive players, the Toronto Marlies’ march to the 2012 Calder Cup final continued to grind along on Monday night, keeping alive the possibility a Toronto team may yet play for a championship this season...
Former Maple Leaf Todd Gill to coach Canadian under-18 team | Toronto Star Online
of the Canadian under-18 men’s hockey team for the Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament in August. The former Maple Leafs defenceman also coaches the Ontario Hockey League’s Kingston Frontenacs. The Ivan Hlinka is an annual summer tournament held in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and features eight countries...
Feschuk: Maple Leafs can take a lesson from post-season success stories | Toronto Star Online
Leafs vice-president of hockey operations Dave Poulin, centre, with president and GM Brian Burke, right, and senior VP of hockey operations Dave Nonis, says the hockey on display in the playoffs...
Kelly: Olympic diver Roseline Filion passes tattoo test with flying colours | Toronto Star Online
Olympic pool in 1984, every passing mention of them had to include their tattoos. Both had very small Maple Leafs emblazoned on their chests. I was 11 years old in the summer of ’84. Davis and Baumann were the first tattooed people I can remember ever seeing. They seemed...
Kelly: Olympic diver Roseline Filion shows off flying colours | Toronto Star Online
Olympic pool in 1984, every passing mention of them had to include their tattoos. Both had very small Maple Leafs emblazoned on their chests. I was 11 years old in the summer of ’84. Davis and Baumann were the first tattooed people I can remember ever seeing. They seemed...
Cohn: The politics of generating power — and winning it | Toronto Star Online
They don’t always have the Midas touch: The Teachers’ fund has hardly improved the performance of the Toronto Maple Leafs all these years, apart from raising ticket prices. One way to raise the rate of return: raise hydro rates at OPG. But if the pension funds had only...
Oklahoma Barons provide Toronto Marlies with toughest test on road to Calder Cup | Toronto Star Online
Toronto Marlies' Ryan Hamilton, left, and Matt Frattin celebrate a goal by teammate Mike Zigomanis against the Abbotsford Heat. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS The Toronto Marlies are on a roll on...
Centre Antoine Vermette perfect fit for Phoenix Coyotes | Toronto Star Online
Take Lee Stempniak as an example. Stempniak never could get his offence going as a member of the Maple Leafs, recording just 13 goals and 14 assists in 63 games for Toronto. But after being dealt to the Coyotes at the 2010 trade deadline for defenceman Matt Jones and...
Until the Music Stops | Toronto Star Online
appears to be to let Tom Renney dangle for a while. Two coaches currently under contract to the Maple Leafs, meanwhile, could factor into all of this. Ron Wilson's name is being bandied about in Washington for a second try with the Caps, a team he coached from...
Toronto Marlies: The team | Toronto Star Online
gave him the chance to coach the Marlies, although not the opportunity — yet — to coach the Maple Leafs. “I’d go through the wall for that man,” he says of the Leafs general manager. Funny, because Eakins’ assistants, Derek King and Gord Dineen, say much the same...
Toronto Marlies: Philippe Dupuis | Toronto Star Online
don’t find them for five days, you’re really in a bad state. It wouldn’t shock Maple Leaf fans, then, to learn it was Philippe Dupuis who saw his spectacles suffer that fate. You remember Dupuis, right? Free agent who signs with the Leafs, 30 games, no...
Toronto Marlies: Dallas Eakins, part three | Toronto Star Online
gave him the chance to coach the Marlies, although not the opportunity — yet — to coach the Maple Leafs. “I’d go through the wall for that man,” he says of the Leafs general manager. Funny, because Eakins’ assistants, Derek King and Gord Dineen, say much the same...
Toronto Marlies: Ryan Hamilton | Toronto Star Online
eight still to go. The second item is a Canadian Forces camouflage jacket brought back from Afghanistan by Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke last year. The Marlies give it to their best performer after victories, a powerful symbol of commitment to a cause. As captain of the Marlies...
Toronto Marlies: Joe Colborne, Nazem Kadri, Jake Gardiner | Toronto Star Online
Nazem Kadri is the highest drafted player on the Toronto Marlies roster. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS Along with Nazem Kadri and Jake Gardiner, Joe Colborne is one of the blue-chip players on the Marlies with the expectation being that he...
Toronto Marlies: A team with a dream | Toronto Star Online
Damien Cox had unlimited access to the Toronto Marlies in B.C. when they eliminated the Abbotsford Heat in the AHL playoffs this week. Here are the stories behind the players who dream of becoming Maple Leafs.
Toronto Marlies: Derek King | Toronto Star Online
team and even though the crowd is thin, Leaf Nation is everywhere in this country. Four fans in Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys sit behind the Marlies bench, all wearing heavy felt black beards in honour of forward Jerry D’Amigo, who has a serious mountain man look going. Yes...
Cox: Toronto Marlies beat Abbotsford Heat, advance to AHL Western Conference final | Toronto Star Online
Toronto Marlies' Mike Zigomanis, left, celebrates his game-winning goal as Abbotsford Heat's Chris Breen looks on during the first overtime period of Game 5 of an AHL Western Conference semifinal...
Onward and Upward | Toronto Star Online
behold Larry Tanenbaum and Co. have a winner on their hands. They'd undoubtedly prefer it was the Maple Leafs or the Raptors. But for now, the AHL Toronto Marlies will have to do, and in many ways, they'll do very nicely indeed. This is a hockey club...
Obituary: Garth Webb, 93, made Juno Beach Centre a mission | Toronto Star Online
a tireless worker. “He had a great sense of humour,” Eyre said, adding that Webb was a huge Toronto Jays, Argos and Maple Leafs fan. He is survived by friends and family, including long-time companion Lise Cooper, his children, grand- and great-grandchildren as well as a sister and nephew...